In the diploma thesis, the legal and institutional framework for monitoring urban growth is\ud
analyzed, where urbanization is examined primarily from a spatial perspective. Controlling\ud
the expansion of urban areas can be implemented in different ways: through planning acts,\ud
various regulations and permits, inspections, active local land policy, such as the purchase or\ud
exchange of land, land banks, design of local infrastructure, supervision and regulation of\ud
land (parcel) structure etc. The thesis briefly introduces the analyzed countries Slovenia and\ud
Sweden, and the characteristics of their spatial planning systems. Furthermore, the system of\ud
directing and regulating land development in Slovenia and Sweden through spatial plans is\ud
presented where the municipal level is emphasized. For the comparison of the procedure of\ud
controlling urbanization between Slovenia and Sweden the approaches and institutional\ud
provisions for implementation of the building land plot subdivision are given. As an example\ud
of duration and complexity of the procedures in this field the process of acquiring the building\ud
permit according to the data of the World Bank is shortly presented. In the conclusion, the\ud
results of comparative analysis are presented, where advantages and disadvantages of the\ud
solutions in the analyzed countries are given, with the emphasis on the efficiency and\ud
transparency of the discussed procedures. The thesis is the result of several months’ research\ud
work at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden, and at the Faculty of\ud
Civil and Geodetic Engineering, University of Ljubljana
